Amble Pier
Wooler Sunset
Dunstanburgh Castle at dawn
Amble Pier again
Dunstanburgh Castle.
Northumberland post
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The Chillingham Herd
Chillingham Wild Cattle
Click this link to find out a little about these cattle:-
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Chillingham Church
Chillingham Church
12 October 2012
waterlilies @ mckee
Floral Portraits.
I enjoy the concept of photographs of flowers as portraits:-
Eilean Donan Castle.
We have been to the Highlands of Scotland many times now and we always find our way to arguably the most photographed Castle in Scotland; you don’t need to look any further than the traditional Christmas/New Year (New Year as it is traditionally eaten with a wee dram) shortcake tin. No matter where you go, you will always find a tin of shortcake with a photograph of this castle – Eilean Donan Castle. You would be forgiven for thinking that it has stood intact for centuries guarding Loch Duich from all-comers, but you would be wrong…. The current castle has been extensively rebuilt from absolute ruin. It is still very pretty though:-
Eilean Donan Castle[gallery]
Bletchley Park.
Since publishing this four years ago, the great man who rebuilt Colossus, Tony Sale (seen in my original post photographs) has sadly died and an award was set up in his honour. It is awarded for computer conservation and restoration (an excerpt from their website reads):-
The 2016 Tony Sale Award for Computer Conservation & Restoration was announced on 25th January 2016.
The Tony Sale Award is presented remembrance of the late Tony Sale, one of the two co-founders of the Computer Conservation Society which runs the award.
Tony Sale was an inspirational figure whose efforts to reconstruct a Second World War Colossus codebreaking machine pioneered much of the present day work of the Society.
The award is sponsored by Google to whom we are most grateful.
The closing date for nomination for the award is the 30th June 2016. Nominations can be made at:-
Bletchley Park is an interesting place. It has been in the Media spotlight recently because of Alan Turing, the genius behind the cracking of the Enigma codes and because of a recent tv series. It is where the Enigma codes were broken during the Second World War and it is well worth a visit. I visited Bletchley park a few years ago with my family. As usual, I took photographs – here are some of those photographs – they are not technically of interest as photographs, but I thought that you might like to see them from an historical point of view:-
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- Alan Turing
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- Alan Turing
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- Sinclair Spectrun ZX
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- Bombe
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- More Bombes – the calculating engines.
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- Tribute to Winston Churchill
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- Fashion 1940’s style in Wartime
Old Photographs scanned from slides.
I used to love slide film – I really got into the differences in colour properties between Fuji Velvia @ iso 50 and Astia with it’s more neutral colours (Velvia gave warm sumptuous colours. Now I am all Digital – if I want those differences, I have to play around in Photoshop) – and what of all my slides?
Early on I bought myself a film scanner (or two) – a flatbed scanner with a backlight for big slides and I later bought a dedicated film scanner. Now, many years after I “went digital” I am still scanning slides when I get the time. Here are a few of them:-
Glencoe on 6 x 6 cm
Sunderland International Airshow.
Dakota
Every July huge crowds gather in Sunderland for the largest free international air-show. I have visited on several occasions and here are some of the many photographs that I have captured with my long lens, a fast exposure and plenty of patience.
Battle of Britain flight.
- Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
- Vulcan Bomber – the last one flying.
- Vulcan Bomber – the last one flying.
A walk by the Trent.
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